Let me chime in for just a second on this. (BTW, I give the
following line of reasoning no more than about a 35% chance of
convincing the group.) I fully understand the no-integer/fixed-point
POV. But:
- I think the case that there are interesting places where integer &
fixed-point audio is used has been well made, so will just repeat
that my sw company, Beatnik, works only on these platforms yet does a
very nice business. No disrespect to DAW and MI people intended when
I say: mobile platforms mean big, big business, and even more so in
the future, so ignore this market at your own risk going forward.
- I think there has to be a rule that profiles can only be considered
OK if they don't involve any actual runtime performance hit (I mean
in process()) for any given plug, I mean zero. On the other hand,
profiles will of course make plug authoring (and architecture & API
design) at least a little more complex and time consuming, maybe a
lot if not well designed. So, can I suggest that the important
question for this group at this point might be: Is that complexity
and time expense worth the benefits, for enough of the group members
(however we define 'worth' and 'enough')?
To help reckon the good/bad of that:
- If the group doesn't want to support integer & fixed-point
platforms now, in GMPI 1.0, then I wouldn't count to heavily on
creating a derivative format just for integer platforms later. You
have no idea how hard it is to get a major standards effort together,
it'll probably never happen even if GMPI becomes very successful for
music production. So I would suggest: Do, or do not, but decide now.
- Forked specs bad, harmonized specs good. So the proposed 'integer
derivative' of GMPI is likely to be fragile and susceptible to just
major, major sync issues with 'real GMPI', compromising its
long-range chances for reliability and therefore success.
- If profiles are made a part of GMPI 1.0, then there probably won't
be a need for a GMPI 2.0 as soon.
- If profiles are made a part of GMPI 1.0, then defining the actual
profiles for the integer & fixed-point platforms can come any time
later, we don't have to do that part now.
- New markets to sell into
- C'mon, running your plugs on Playstation 2 & Xbox & N-Gages, how
cool is that?
-- Chris G.
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